[OpenType] missing word in OS2 table description?

[Peter Constable]

Ken:

> This might argue for using UI fonts to display 'name' table strings other than name.ID=19

There are lots of apps that will display a font name (name IDs 1, 2, 4, 16, 17, 18, 21, or 22) using the font itself.


Peter

From: mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com <mpeg-OTspec at yahoogroups.com> On Behalf Of Ken Lunde lunde at adobe.com [mpeg-OTspec]
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Peter,

You wrote:

> Having said that... Are fonts that only contain supplementary-plane characters viable or a good idea? At least, I don't think I'd ever recommend anyone create such a font for the simple reason that I think any font should be able to display any of the strings in it's name table, and a name table with strings that don't use _any_ BMP characters seems extremely unlikely.

Although they are specifal-purpose, the various deployment formats for Adobe Blank, whose fonts cover all 1,111,998 Unicode code points, makes for an interesting case for displaying 'name' table string content:

https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2019/05/adobe-blank-vf.html

This might argue for using UI fonts to display 'name' table strings other than name.ID=19 (Sample text).

Regards...

-- Ken

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